The Oxford Planning Commission reconsidered and approved a variance Monday to the owners of Oxford East Shopping Center that will allow them to plant fewer trees in the parking lot than required in the city’s landscaping ordinance and granted a parking lot variance to Rainbow Cleaners, allowing them to have fewer parking spaces at its new spot than required in the city ordinance since most of the traffic is short term and the drive-through window reduces the need for parking. (December 14, 2010, Page 1)

Leon Tatum looks back on years and years of pressing clothes for local residents, University faculty and staff and thousands and thousands of students in this week’s A Conversation With.” Tatum and family members started Rainbow Cleaners downtown and eventually moved it to its current location on West Jackson, (September 16, 2010, Page 4)